Columns
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The Founders’ Vision
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Feb. 22 is an important day in history for a number of reasons. It’s George Washington’s birthday (1732) and the day the Miracle on Ice happened (1980). But closer to home, it is also Penn State’s birthday, now known as Founders’ Day.
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Revenues Flat for Penn State Football, Intercollegiate Athletics in 2018-19, as Profits Down $6 Million
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Overall revenues for Penn State athletics were $164.5 million in its most recently completed fiscal year, a dip of about $840,000 from 2017-18. Revenues for Penn State football were $105.5 million, an increase of only $244,000.
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The Seeds of Penn State Basketball’s Current Success Were Sown a Year Ago
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When the poetry of the 2019-20 Penn State Basketball season is finally completed and written for future generations, it must begin with the prose of the 2018-19 season as the starting point.
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Hakuna Matata in Thessaloniki
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There are about a dozen wristband hawkers at the 500-year-old White Tower, the busiest spot on Thessaloniki’s waterfront. They’re part of the city’s burgeoning migrant population, people who fled violence or oppression in their homelands and hoped to get permits to work in Greece or elsewhere
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We Are… Happy in Hockey Valley
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It was 10 years ago that I wrote a column about those of us involved in Penn State hockey already believing in miracles, months before the Pegulas would gave $102 million to build Pegula Ice Arena and transition to an NCAA program. Little did any of us know at the time what a massive transformation
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Penn State Football: The Long, Slade and Shorter of the 2020 Transfer Portal
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Ricky Slade and Justin Shorter had such promise. (Still do.) Potential was their middle name. They were No. 1’s in their states and either No. 1 or No. 2 at their position in the country, according to ESPN and 247Sports. What happened?
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What’s for Dinner? The Big Business of Food Service Continues to Evolve
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The restaurant industry has also gone through a transition from the rise of food service at convenience store, to changes in how fast food places do business, to chains that operate under corporate conglomerates.
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Pickleball: The Racket That’s Taking Over America
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Pickleball’s popularity is growing rapidly, in large part because of Baby Boomers like me. Still, the sport has puzzled me, and so I made my way to the State College YMCA, the epicenter for pickleball in Happy Valley.
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Can Sean Clifford Lead Penn State to the Playoffs? New OC Kirk Ciarrocca Says Yes
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In the CFP, QB1 is the coin of the realm. In the six years of the College Football Playoff, the teams that make the final four more often than not have a great quarterback. Especially in the past three seasons. In 2017, 2018 and 2019, QB1s named Baker and Bryant, Tua and…
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A Way to Make a Very Good School District Even Better
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There are a lot of lists on the internet. Normally my eyes glaze over the never-ending headlines touting the top 10 this, the 50 most popular that or the 25 worst other things, but a recent social media post from a friend alerted me to one that looked interesting – the most and least educated…